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Note: William Cash, Master Mariner, was born in Scotland, and settled in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1667. Thre he married Elizabeth Lambert, bought a home on a quarter acre at the junction of Essex and Forrester Streets. Eight children were forn to them, four sons and four dauthers.
In 1676 the Mariner brought to Salem his nephew, also named William Cash, from Scotland. This younger William was the Immigrant Ancestor of our American Cash family. A British tax record lists him as "seated" in Westmoreland County, VA in 1677.
The Salem Mariner left Massachusetts record the fact that the Cash seat was anciently at "the place Cash", near Strathmiglo, in Fife, Scotland. Research proved him to have been correct. By this very circumstance he becomes ours . . . as the Cash surname was taken there, and only there, under one set of circumstances. Loss of records in Scotland, unfortunately, prevently charting the family of these two Williams, in Scotland of the 1600s.
The Salem William was owner and Master of the Brigantine, "Good Intent", and was very likely a master Mariner by the time he was 22. He operated his ship in the British Isles-American Colonies trade.
To have sailed a wooden vessel for nearly fifty years on the treacherous waters of the Atlantic, with the crudest of instruments or by the stars, particularly in winter, and finally after a lifetime to bring to port his vessel and crew intact, marks him certainly as a Master of the sea. He was of that intrepid group of early mariners who pioneered the routes for the commerce that would follow them.
He sleeps in Charter Street Cemetary, Salem, on Burial Point. The wooden cross that once marked his grave is long gone.
Information about the Cash family prior to William Cash of Scotland (the nephew) found in the Cash book, written by Don Cash. (Mar 10, 1976, San Diego, California, now deceased)
Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America, by Henry Whittemore, Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967: William Cash, of Salem, a mariner, married Oct 1667, Elizabeth, daughter perhaps of Richard, had William, born 1669, John and Elizabeth (twins) 1672, Mary and Ann (twin) 1675, Elizabeth 1693. (References: Stickney's Hist. of Minisink, N.Y., 170; Driver G., 253, 265; Savage's Gen. Dict., Vol I, 347)
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